A year filled with enthusiastic announcements about enhanced or new Chandler Public Library services and products had another moment the week of April 24.
That’s when the Chandler City …
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Chandler rec center will have ‘library locker’
Courtesy of City of Chandler
John Sefton, Chandler’s community services director, explained to the City Council at a study session the usefulness of a ‘library locker’ to be installed at the Tumbleweed Recreation Center.
A year filled with enthusiastic announcements about enhanced or new Chandler Public Library services and products had another moment the week of April 24.
That’s when the Chandler City Council unanimously approved the $44,500 purchase of a “library locker.”
John Sefton, the city’s community services director, explained to the council at a study session that the money was raised through Friends of the Chandler Library contributions.
He said the 44-unit locker, to be installed near the west patio of the Tumbleweed Recreation Center, will be a way for library cardholders to check out or return materials after hours and off-site.
“This will allow people to use the library even more — well beyond the hours or locations or branches,” he said.
Sefton compared the arrangement to Amazon lockers, though the Tumbleweed Rec Center’s locker won’t have multiple sizes of units. Each box in the locker will be less than 5 inches tall and 13.5 inches wide, so the system can be used with many Chandler Library items, but not all.
The locker won’t be available 24 hours per day, however. Its service hours will match standard Tumbleweed Park hours of 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
System features include secure access, automated notifications, and direct integration with library operating systems, a staff report states.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
He covers the Chandler area for both yourvalley.net and the monthly print edition while writing for and assisting in the production of the Daily Independent.
Brooks is a well-traveled journalist who has documented life in small American communities in nearly all U.S. time zones.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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